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Hang a tiny bell / from a hungry, agile cat, / and alter all things.

I've launched a new blog called A Tiny Bell. It mixes both the "links to cool things" aspect of a traditional blog and the "personal essay" aspect of more modern blogs. I hope you like it enough to spread the word.
posted by dobbs on Jul 27, 2024 - 2 comments

Small Wonders Magazine Year 2

An online magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. [more inside]
posted by lriG rorriM on May 14, 2024 - 1 comment

OEDILF, The, n.

The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form, or OEDILF (oh-DILF), is a magnificent, ambitious, and slightly insane attempt to write a limerick for every word in the English language, one letter group at a time. Twenty years after it was first posted to Mefi, it's still going strong—which means that it's now celebrating its twentieth birthday. [more inside]
posted by rory on May 7, 2024 - 1 comment

Shopping List Haiku Generator

It makes poetry / from grocery store items / again and again
posted by dng on Oct 26, 2023 - 1 comment

An Abundance Of Beasts

An Abundance Of Beasts is an endless medieval bestiary generator, creating new creatures every time you look. [more inside]
posted by dng on Aug 26, 2023 - 5 comments

Small Wonders Magazine

A new online magazine for speculative poetry and flash fiction. [more inside]
posted by lriG rorriM on Feb 28, 2023 - 1 comment

Thirteen poems by ancient Chinese ghosts

I recently discovered that the 1707 collection Complete Tang Poems has, amid various miscellaneous subjects tucked in the back, two chapters of poems by ghosts and I’ve become obsessed. I just posted this sampler of thirteen translations, as an installment as I work my way through them. This stuff is awesome: there’s a poem thrown at general by a suit of armor, a poem written in blood in the front hall of a magistrate’s house, more than one riverbank lament over a lack of funeral rites, and a voice from the women’s quarters giving her reaction to hearing the story of Mulan. [more inside]
posted by Quasirandom on Oct 5, 2022 - 3 comments

saneens, nubians, one lamancha: poems

Winner of the 2021 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest, saneens, nubians, one lamancha is a collection of poetry recounting my first six months as a novice farmhand on a small raw goat milk dairy in the southern United States. The poems seek to expand the frame of the pastoral by leveraging the specific experience of a black body learning to work, live, and exist in the agrarian. [more inside]
posted by youarenothere on Apr 24, 2022 - 1 comment

NPR's Joy Generator

After a couple of months of work, we've finally launched this! It's a collection of short stories about the things that bring us joy, and the science behind them. Pairs well with headphones.
posted by Four String Riot on Jun 29, 2021 - 3 comments

1. You are complimenting Aristotle's brilliance.

My poem "The ten categories of being believed by Aristotle" is up at Liminality now.
posted by yarntheory on Dec 22, 2020 - 1 comment

I have eaten the plums

Inspired by this post my favorite pastime recently, when I'm feeling down or bored, has been getting GPT-2 to complete William Carlos Williams poems. I've made a tumblr where I have been posting some of my favorite completions of his classic, "This Is Just To Say."
posted by Lazlo Hollyfeld on Apr 30, 2020 - 0 comments

Basho poems

Each day, I post a Basho poem. These are my own translations. [more inside]
posted by vacapinta on Apr 23, 2020 - 1 comment

Chinese poetry translations

I’ve the habit, when learning a language, of using classic poems as practice texts, alongside more modern works. With Japanese, I got a couple books out of this. Now with Chinese, I’m doing it again. So far I’ve translated 70+ poems, mostly from the Tang dynasty, mostly by working through 300 Tang Poems (唐詩三百首), but also other randoms as I stumble across them. The more polished work gets indexed in this post, with rougher drafts posted in this journal as I initially complete them. Feedback welcome at all levels and stages of work.
posted by Quasirandom on Aug 27, 2019 - 4 comments

Shit Solidarity: Magnetic Memes on Workers' Wages in Shitter Stalls

I make cheap, crude magnets bearing the ancient poem of worker solidarity (boss makes a dollar; I make a dime; that's why I shit on company time). These magnets include a URL, shitsolidarity.com, which offers a brief spiel about income inequality and corporations' attempts to curtail workers' rights to pinch a loaf (drop anchor, lay cable, squeeze out a senator) on the job. Interested parties can buy their own cheapo magnets, with 100% of proceeds supporting Jobs With Justice.
posted by duffell on Feb 5, 2019 - 2 comments

I come to your night table green with laughter

Maybe it's because we share this fever dream of seafoam and ship wheels. Maybe you just enjoy the way the rain falls in rings like small farewells. Maybe you have even conducted night watch in the same heartbroken skies. Perhaps you only long for an anemone of midnight as vaporous as everlasting lace. Whatever the case may be, I hope "The Keeping of Lights," a new collection of surrealist poetry, will fulfill all your needs.
posted by aletheia on Jan 9, 2019 - 2 comments

Side Quest Limericks

I write goofy limericks to strangers, seal them in envelopes, and leave them in public places with strict instructions that they only be opened by someone bearing the name on the envelope. [more inside]
posted by duffell on Dec 6, 2018 - 5 comments

Oliva, 2017 -- Poems + Photos

In late 2017, I moved to Oliva, Spain, a small city on the Mediterranean coast, 70km south of Valencia. I spent 87 days taking photos in the streets and alleys, laneways and boardwalks. Nights, I wrote poems and worked on my first novel, often dining at one of the local bars or restaurants. Here are some of my favorite poems, pictures, and snippets from the trip. (Best viewed NOT on a phone.)
posted by dobbs on Nov 13, 2018 - 8 comments

Encomials: Sonnets from Pentametron

My bot and I wrote a book! I used a fancier version of pentametron (previously on projects) to generate a book of sonnets made entirely of texts found on twitter. It's been published by Counterpath Press as part of the Using Electricity series edited by Nick Montfort. [more inside]
posted by moonmilk on Oct 10, 2018 - 1 comment

Twitter Poems

Every weekday I get up and composed a short poem on Twitter. This is that collection.
posted by maxsparber on May 22, 2018 - 1 comment

The Wildest West Podcast

What began as an exploration of my love of weird western stuff has evolved into a discussion of creativity and the professional market for creative undertakings, with a lot of little side trips into the worlds of wrestling, polka, horseback riding, rattlesnake chili, and whatever else attracts our attention at the moment. Cohosted by Coco Mault.
posted by maxsparber on Jan 31, 2018 - 0 comments

Entropic Nature

is a set of four of my poems translated from Icelandic into English by Larissa Kyzer. It's published by Exchanges, University of Iowa's online journal of literary translation, as part of their fall 2017 issue, Traces. The poems are in a very strict form of my own devising where each poem is four verses, each verse four lines, and each line broken up into clusters of four letters, and the English translation replicates the form.
posted by Kattullus on Dec 18, 2017 - 0 comments

1,858 artworks of Adora

It started over 7 years ago as a 365-photo-a-day-type tumblr for my baby daughter, and it keeps propagating. Right now, the best way to see (most of) the 1,858 different artworks of Adora (with a new one coming every day) is on instagram , a massive cache of original illustrations. [more inside]
posted by growabrain on Sep 3, 2017 - 1 comment

Living Shakespeare

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, the collaborative Living Shakespeare project presents essays on Shakespeare's works by prominent global figures, accompanied by short films featuring the writers co-produced by BBC World TV. [more inside]
posted by Sonny Jim on Jun 22, 2017 - 0 comments

Burning the Days

Dual-function site: New mailing list of my creative writing and limited archive of my past writing projects (Victory Shag, Wrestle the Future to the Fucking Ground, etc.) -- fiction, poetry, love letters, what have you. [more inside]
posted by dobbs on Apr 8, 2017 - 0 comments

Nebula One, a cartoon set in space

I've created a fun and hopefully good-looking new animated series set in space. There are three short episodes, and they're all in one video. Later episodes — assuming I'll have the time and inclination to keep going — will reveal that the mission for these astronauts is establishing a sports franchise in space, for television. But for now, dodging space rocks and worrying about avatars takes up most of their time. Enjoy! [more inside]
posted by edlundart on Mar 1, 2017 - 2 comments

Poems for the resistance: a poem a day keeps fascism at bay

I'm putting together a poem a day project aimed at cultivating hope and grace. I would so love if you subscribed. [more inside]
posted by athirstforsalt on Jan 23, 2017 - 0 comments

Etch To Their Own

A poetry newsletter, every Friday. It starts with poetry - usually highlighting a few nice things from the week, and from there I try and connect things to bigger ideas, or news items. [more inside]
posted by CjEggett on Jan 21, 2017 - 2 comments

Trailer for Ginevra

I have finished my first project using the multi-plane animation stand I built this Fall. The trailer for the short film Ginevra is now online. Based on Percy Shelley's poem "The Dirge", Ginevra depicts the aftermath of the murder of a young woman. As her distraught mother looks on, she learns that life after death involves a transition she never could have imagined. [more inside]
posted by tessmartin on Jan 3, 2017 - 4 comments

Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 3

One of the problems in publishing poetry is that the books are so short. Of course nobody wants to pay $10-12 for a 40-page read, but it's difficult to produce a professional book (with editors, proofreaders, cover artists, book design, printing costs, promotional costs, etc.) for much less than that. We realized that we could steal from the tradition of 18th and 19th century British and American literary annuals and the Penguin Modern Poets Series of the 1960s and ’70s, and put together three books from different poets in one volume. Somewhere between an anthology and a single-author collection, the Floodgate Poetry Series was born. Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 3 contains:
  • Northern Corn by brothers Anders and Kai Carlson-Wee, which invites us on a trip across an America of dust, trains, poverty, dignity, and dreams;
  • Begotten, by Cave Canem fellows F. Douglas Brown and Geffrey Davis, which unflinchingly explores fatherhood in the era of Black Lives Matter;
  • and Driving through the Animal by Enid Shomer, which witnesses the tiniest details of ecological destruction and still provides some hope for the future, and which is Shomer's first poetry book since Stars At Noon (U Arkansas, 2001).
[more inside]
posted by joannemerriam on Dec 19, 2016 - 0 comments

Crown Prince Of Rabbits

My first book of poetry is being published by a small press. I drew the cover art, and then decided that I should also record myself reading every single poem. (Remember this AskMe?) But I didn't want a simple audiobook. So I composed and recorded original music for every single poem in the book and posted the resulting mega-album to Bandcamp. Then I made a little microsite for the entire project.
posted by eustacescrubb on Nov 29, 2016 - 0 comments

10000 YEARS

A found poetry/ruins exploration game about a mysterious facility in the desert, inspired by this article about creating a nuclear waste disposal site so that it's left undisturbed for ten thousand years. The trailer can be found here!
posted by brecc on Oct 29, 2016 - 2 comments

Lit.cat

The Lit (dot) cat / is a reading format / where you scroll your screen / for under 30 minutes, flat / Whether your feet are up at bat / or on the toilet mat / flash fiction, poetry, any other writ / can go into the weekly Lit.cat [more inside]
posted by weewooweewoo on Sep 27, 2016 - 1 comment

The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom!

Released today, The Museum of All Things Awesome and That Go Boom is an anthology of science fiction featuring blunt force trauma, explosions, adventure, derring-do, tigers, Martians, zombies, fanged monsters, dinosaurs (alien and domestic), ray guns, rocket ships, and anthropomorphized marshmallows. [more inside]
posted by joannemerriam on Jul 27, 2016 - 0 comments

TwitPoet - An iOS app to generate poems from Twitter, and post them

TwitPoet is an iOS app and friend and I wrote. It automatically generates poems from your Twitter feed, and (if you choose!) tweets them. It can compose Limericks, Haiku, and Rhyming Couplets. You can compose poems from your Home feed , a Trend, someone you're following or tweets you've searched for. twitpoet.com , Twitpoet on the App Store [more inside]
posted by BardyWeirdy on Jul 26, 2016 - 0 comments

Neural Networks Translate Images to Poetry

Neuralsnap generates an image caption using a model I trained (convolutional and recurrent neural networks), then uses another character-level recurrent neural net that I trained on ~40 MB of poetry to expand the caption into a poem. (In this example, generated from a Rothko painting, the red text is the direct image caption, and the rest is the poetic expansion.) [more inside]
posted by TheMadStork on Jan 13, 2016 - 5 comments

"An old dad, a young mom"

'Opposites' features 12 musical interpretations of a somehow-biographical song that I wrote together with my daughter.
2 years ago, when my daughter was 4 years old, we started composing little 'songs' together. Since then, we wrote nearly 50 songs, and published one book.

Here are 2 other musical pages: 4 songs as played by Douglas Haines, and 4 songs read in sign language by Koli Cutler.
More than half of our songs had been put to music by musicians from around the world, some of them in multiple styles.

These are parts of the One A Day Project I started when she was born.
There are many similar pages inside.

Today is Adora's 6th birthday. Happy birthday, dear Adora.
posted by growabrain on Oct 18, 2015 - 1 comment

Villanelle Bot: Poems Written by Twitter

A bot that writes poems poems in the villanelle form, built using Twitter posts from random people. The poems live on Tumblr, and are announced @villanellebot. [more inside]
posted by avoision on Aug 27, 2015 - 8 comments

The Ephemerides

A bot that pairs randomly selected images from outer planet space probes with computer-generated poems. Also available on Tumblr. [more inside]
posted by aparrish on Aug 20, 2015 - 3 comments

Derivative Poetry

Here is some poetry. It has words and lines and things. There may be stanzas.
posted by curuinor on Aug 16, 2015 - 1 comment

Northern California Lightning Series

I wrote a chapbook of poems about the 2008 California wildfires, drought, love, and anxiety about the future called Northern California Lightning Series. [more inside]
posted by rabbitbookworm on Aug 14, 2015 - 0 comments

Algorithmically Generated Poetry

I made a website that generates poetry in the style of a given poet. [more inside]
posted by bboston on Aug 4, 2015 - 5 comments

Essay: Authenticity Obsession, or Conceptualism as Minstrel Show

An essay I wrote about what recent race scandals by avant-garde poets Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa Place have to do with sunglasses, the invention of the fingerprint, and the atom bomb.
posted by johnasdf on Jun 17, 2015 - 2 comments

“…my joys and thee? the sparrow builds / herself a frightful ghost.”

Isaac Watts, known as the “Father of English Hymnody,” wrote words to dozens of well-loved hymns and carols, including Joy To The World and O God, Our Help In Ages Past. @watts_ebooks generates random hymn stanzas based on his complete works, with (mostly) correct rhyme and scansion and HIGHLY DUBIOUS theology! (Github repo; blog post on how it all works.)
posted by nebulawindphone on May 18, 2015 - 3 comments

All Positives / Maroon Sunflowers

I'm announcing a new boutique poetry vandalism service, "All Positives / Maroon Sunflowers." If you donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center or the National Police Accountability Project, I'll vandalize (or, inscribe more meaningfully) one object you send me, make & post a GIF of it, and send it back to you. For complete details, please check out both links. Thanks for looking!
posted by sleevener on May 12, 2015 - 1 comment

Two Mistakes: A Non-Musical Musical

My narrative poem, Two Mistakes took second place prize in the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Competition. It is a reworking of Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors set in the early and mid-19th century in Kentucky (slave) and Indiana (free) states. The above link goes to blog post describing the work. The work itself can be found here. [more inside]
posted by dances_with_sneetches on Apr 16, 2015 - 0 comments

A Travel Guide

A Travel Guide generates random travel guides for all points on the globe using sentences wrenched from Wikivoyage. Its goal to give its visitors an alternate reading of place, through the serendipitous juxtaposition of their current location with evocative procedural text. [more inside]
posted by aparrish on Mar 24, 2015 - 2 comments

Idiolexicon

Two poems a day from around the internet. [more inside]
posted by roll truck roll on Feb 25, 2015 - 0 comments

Song name haiku

Given the name of a musical artist, "Song name haiku" finds haikus where each line is the name of a song by that artist.
posted by jjwiseman on Jan 19, 2015 - 5 comments

Jackie the baboon, and other upsetting topics

The story of Jackie, a baboon who went to war with the South African army, is the latest instalment in my series on Animals in World War I. [more inside]
posted by Perodicticus potto on Jan 6, 2015 - 0 comments

Floodgate Poetry Series comprises 3 chapbooks by 3 poets in 1 volume

Campbell McGrath’s Picasso/Mao appears in Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 1, along with short collections by Jenna Bazzell and Martin Anthony Call. [more inside]
posted by joannemerriam on Nov 15, 2014 - 0 comments

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